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...know is as it is, it might be evident that this is Mr. Marquand's first book from the fact that it starts a little "hard". Things do not move along quite easily unit the first crash and oath...
...oath binding if a man solemnly swears, but neglects the formality of holding up his right hand? With such a defense, a prisoner in a New Hampshire court is pleading not guilty to a charge of perjury, and the court has been so overcome by the strangeness of the plea, that the case has had to be continued. This leads one naturally to ask: what would happen if a man had his fingers crossed all the time, or perhaps his tongue in his cheek, or forgot to cross his heart and say, "Hope to die," after the ceremony? The whole...
...point raised in New Hampshire affects intensely the whole question of the conception of an oath. In New York state anyone who takes an oath is required to lay his hand on the Bible. Here in Massachusetts, Attorney General Allen is of the opinion that what ever the New Hampshire courts decide, an oath is binding whether the right hand is raised or not, and every intelligent man will support him in this attitude. If an oath is not recognized as sacred in itself, if there is no way of making it sacred; how is it going to be possible...
...abused one. The pledge-making a mania has not stopped with the Boy Scouts and the Sunday school but has found its way into prospective legislation in the form of a bill now before the New York Assembly which proposes that public school teachers be required to take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution. The purpose of the bill is to eliminate communistic and other extreme propaganda threatening our present system of government...
...little reflection reveals the fallacy of the supposition that a mere pledge can accomplish any appreciable limitation of insidious propaganda by erring school teachers. Anyone who feels justified in accepting the protection of a government which he is surreptitiously attacking will be unscrupulous enough to take a "mere oath" and subsequently violate it. Furthermore any propaganda sufficiently biting to make an impression on the student mind would not be long in reaching the ears of the proper authority to deal with such individual cases. Finally, these betrayers of childish confidence exist for the most part only is the minds...